Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.10820

Name

Legionella pneumophila Brenner et al. 1979 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Brenner et al. 1988

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Legionella Brenner et al. 1979 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Saini and Gupta 2021

Members

subspecies	Legionella pneumophila fraseri Brenner et al. 1989
subspecies	Legionella pneumophila pascullei Brenner et al. 1989
subspecies	Legionella pneumophila pneumophila (Brenner et al. 1979) Brenner et al. 1989

Type Strain

representative organism

Philadelphia 1^T (=DSM 7513 =ATCC 33152 =NCTC 11192 =CIP 103854 =JCM 7571 =CCUG 9568 =BCRC 17854 =CECT 7109)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
class Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Williams and Kelly 2013
order Legionellales Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Saini and Gupta 2021
family Legionellaceae Brenner et al. 1979 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Saini and Gupta 2021
genus Legionella Brenner et al. 1979 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Saini and Gupta 2021
species Legionella pneumophila Brenner et al. 1979 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Brenner et al. 1988

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Non-Type Exemplars

Digital Object Identifier	Strain Equivalence
10.1601/ex.20402	130b (=ATCC BAA-74)
10.1601/ex.16699	serogroup 1 (=#2)
10.1601/ex.15906	Corby
10.1601/ex.15908	Paris
10.1601/ex.16698	#1 (=serogroup 1)
10.1601/ex.15905	2300/99 (=serogroup 1)
10.1601/ex.15907	serogroup 1 (=Lens)
10.1601/ex.20403	1169-MN-H R21 (=DM121 =ATCC 43073)

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the species Legionella pneumophila Brenner et al. 1979 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Brenner et al. 1988. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.10820.

Source File

10.1601/tx.10820.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 2, 2019.

References

Brenner DJ, Steigerwalt AG, McDade JE. Classification of the Legionnaires' disease bacterium: Legionella pneumophila, genus novum, species nova, of the family Legionellaceae, familia nova. Ann Intern Med 1979; 90:656-658. [PubMed].
Brenner DJ, Steigerwalt AG, Epple P, Bibb WF, McKinney RM, Starnes RW, Colville JM, Selander RK, Edelstein PH, Moss CW. Legionella pneumophila serogroup Lansing 3 isolated from a patient with fatal pneumonia, and descriptions of L. pneumophila subsp. pneumophila subsp. nov., L. pneumophila subsp. fraseri subsp. nov., and L. pneumophila subsp. pascullei subsp. nov. J Clin Microbiol 1988; 26:1695-1703. [PubMed].